Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia is an autobiography written by Marya Hornbacher
, detailing her fourteen-year battle with eating disorders. Published by Random House
in 1998, Wasted was a critical and commercial success. The author's young age (she wrote the book at the age of 21) surprised many readers, and the memoir was praised for its maturity and candor.
Wasted was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize
in 1998, and has since gone on to sell over a million copies in the USA alone, as well as being translated in to fourteen different languages.
Marya Hornbacher
Marya Justine Hornbacher is an American author and freelance journalist. Her book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, is an autobiographical account of her struggle with eating disorders, written when she was twenty-two. It has been translated into fourteen languages and sold over a million...
, detailing her fourteen-year battle with eating disorders. Published by Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
in 1998, Wasted was a critical and commercial success. The author's young age (she wrote the book at the age of 21) surprised many readers, and the memoir was praised for its maturity and candor.
Wasted was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
in 1998, and has since gone on to sell over a million copies in the USA alone, as well as being translated in to fourteen different languages.
See also
anorexia nervosaAnorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Although commonly called "anorexia", that term on its own denotes any symptomatic loss of appetite and is not strictly accurate...